Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 6231
NGC6231, NGC 6231
NGC 6231 is a Cosmic Atlas object record of type star_cluster from OpenNGC NGC/IC objects. Its catalog position is right ascension 253.5455 degrees and declination -41.82425 degrees. Its catalog distance is 5537.459723544195 light-years. Its apparent magnitude is 2.6.
- Object type
- star_cluster
- Constellation
- Sco
- Right ascension
- 253.5455°
- Declination
- -41.82425°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 5537.459723544195 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.6
- Catalog source
- OpenNGC NGC/IC objects
- Catalog identifier
- ngc_ic_deep_sky
- Source record type
- openngc_ngc_ic_catalog
- Catalog epoch
- J2000 catalog coordinates
- Position epoch
- J2000
- Selection caveat
- OpenNGC Pax is not treated as parallax for galaxies. Galactic classes never use Hubble-flow redshift or radial-velocity distance, and radial velocity alone is never converted to distance.
- Cosmology
- Not supplied by the source catalog